Senate approves 2.7 billion military pay boost
The Senate voted 51 to 27 to approve a 2.7 billion pay raise for servicemen, triple the Nixon proposal, with a 125 percent hike for recruits. The plan uses Gates Commission scales and raises minimum officer pay, while setting dates on draft funding and debate.
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Strikes End as City and Union Reach Proposal
Instant News reports that municipal workers returned to duty after city and union leaders approved a plan to end a two day walkout disrupting traffic sewage plants parks beaches and school lunch deliveries. The piece covers related political actions in New York and other global updates.
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Middlebush Rites To Be Thursday
Dr. Frederick A. Middlebush longtime University of Missouri Columbia president emeritus died Tuesday at his Lenoir Home cottage in Columbia. He led MU from 1936 to 1954 and joined the university in 1922 rising from associate professor to president. Funeral services are set for 4:00 p.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church with burial in Columbia Cemetery.
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University of Missouri- Columbia
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Western Michigan Normal
University of Michigan
America
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Columbia
Columbia Cemetery
Stanford team reports evidence of partons in protons
Stanford researchers led by Dr. Panofsky and Dr. Kendall announced in Scientific American that atom smashing reveals internal substructures in protons and neutrons, called partons. Electron bombardment at 21 billion electron volts produced inelastic scattering, suggesting multiple hard cores and shedding light on the strong force.
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Henry W. Kendall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific American Magazine
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Butterfield speaks on need for Boys Ranch at Mexico Kiwanis
Tom Butterfield founder of Butterfield Boys Ranch in Marshall addressed the Mexico Kiwanis Club about the thousands of children in reform schools and institutions. He argued neglected and delinquent youths share a need for love and guidance. Sixteen boys live at the ranch with a nearby group, and they attend school and church while learning community responsibility. Guests at the luncheon were Larry Hiner Kim Blarylock and Mrs J B Doolittle.
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Butterfield Boys Ranch
Marshall
Mexico Kiwanis Club
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Kiwanis
Larry Hiner
Kim Blarylock
J. B. Doolittle
City hires 50 for summer programs in Mexico
City Manager Neil Nielsen announced fifty local students and teachers will work for the City of Mexico this summer. About 40 join the summer recreation program at playgrounds pools and program areas including golf tennis drama and art. Two will assist the City-County Health Unit in mosquito control and environmental surveys with the city sanitarian.
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Cambodian Forces Hit By New Assaults At Vihear Suor Marsh
Cambodian troops amid heavy fighting east of Phnom Penh report mortars cannons and rockets pounding bunkers in Vihear Suor. Lt Col Am Rong says 100 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed. earlier reports cite 80 government casualties at Prey Thom 12 miles northeast of the capital amid four hour battle.
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Okinawa Turnover Ceremonies Set For June 17
Secretary Rogers and Foreign Minister Aichi agreed to ceremonies on June 17 to sign the Okinawa return treaty for 1972. Details noted include removal of nuclear weapons, civilian use of Naha airport, Japan paying leases, and Voice of America being transferred to a private company.
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Ryukyu Islands
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Superstar Rock Opera Canceled in St Louis
Four performances of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar at Powell Symphony Hall were canceled due to a copyright dispute. The American Rock Opera Company had presented the work with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra on April 13. The authors Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice argue no group has rights from the Robert Stigwood Organization. The symphony hopes for a court ruling to allow future performances, possibly at the Mississippi festival on August 5.
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Symphony Society
St. Louis
James N. Cain
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